Finding a Voice 18 is a follow on from FAV17, I put on the exhibition to celebrate “discharge” from services. Having explored vigorously with paint I wanted to share the space with another maker, Jan Goldsworthy, an art psychotherapist at Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT). This collaboration was a dialogue, The Good, Bad & Ugly or parenting and mental health.

The next project is under way, I’m looking for other parent makers to platform along side my ongoing practice. This year’s exhibition focus is on education. Since doing FAV17 I have taken my work from the show to a conference  ‘Creativity in co-production’ at the King’s Centre in Norwich and to the UEA to teach part of the Domestic Abuse unit for the 3rd Year Clinical Psychology Students.

It is my goal to change how family mental health is viewed by professionals before they work with families, by exposing them to their own emotional reactions.

I will be holding bespoke workshops similar to this type of teaching along side FAV18 for different areas of services and education.   The Compass Outreach Team  approach kept me and my son together, when I hit a crisis point we leaned into it in a way that is impossible with children’s services and linear behaviour programmes. Our difficult days and hard work was met with robust therapeutic support that enabled lasting change for the good.

The exhibition is an space I would like to open up to the regions therapists to use to explore themes raised by the work with their own “clients”. Plus offer the space for professional reflective practices & exploitive sessions for NFST service staff.

For more information on workshops & bookings please contact findingavoice@yahoo.com

The exhibition will be open

Tuesday 16th -Saturday 27th October, 9 – 5pm

Anteros Gallery, 11-15 Fye Bridge St, Norwich NR3 1LJ

We are trying the funding lottery,though if you would like to contribute please do so here gofundme.com/findingavoice-18 

 

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